Variable-speed device.



E. DRAULLBTTB.

VARIABLE SPEED DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1910.

Patented July 9, 1912.

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E. DRAULLBTTE.

VARIABLE SPEED DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1910.

Patented July 9, 1912.

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E. DRAULLETTE.

VARIABLE SPEED DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1910.

1,931,988 Patented July 9, 1912.

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Specification tr Letters Eatent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMOND a citizen of the French Republic, and resident of Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Variable-Speed Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a further improvement in variable speed devices as described and claimed in my application filed March 7,1908 (Serial No. 119826) and it particularly concerns the extensible chain pulleys.

The description of the invention is given hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, of whicht Figure 1 represents a section through the apparatus taken through the axis of the main shaft and of the secondary or auxiliary shaft. Fig. 2 is a section on line AB and on line CD of Fig. 1. Fig. 3.

is an elevation, partly in section on line IFM of Fig. 4. Fig. a is a ground plan, partly in section, on line L-K of Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 are side views of vertical sections through Figs. 3 and 4 on the lines EF and GH respectively looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 7 represents the junction of the chain. Fig. 8 represents a segmentary section of the groove of 'a chain disk showing the teeth and the positions of the center-punches. Figs. 9 and 10 represent in elevation and in ground plan a modification of the chain having fixed points.

The explosion engine revolvingin one direction only and with uniform speed, an apparatus has to be added for obtaining a progressive speed and back-motion with the organs which are actuated from the mainshaft, said apparatus being hereinafter fully described.

The progressive variable speed gear is essentially composed of two principal parts of.

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of example in the drawings, from the angu'- 1. There are further keyed upon said shaft 1 the driving pulleys 4 and 5 to which correspond two other pulleys 6 and 7 actuated Patented July 9, 1912. Application filed May 11, 1910. Serial No. 560,757. i

by chains, cables or any other. suitable means for transmissioh and revolving in the same direction as the main-shaft. Owing to a device which is descr bed hereinafter, said pulleys may vary their diameter as they are composed of a fixed hub and of a movable part.

Supposing the motion to start originally from the position of the wheels which is shown in the drawings, the large driving pulley t operates the small pulley 6 which has, keyed upon its fixed hub, the outer ring 8 of the difi'erential gear; the small driving pulley 5 operates the large pulley 7 which takes along in its revolving'motion the satellite pinions 9 and as in the case presented the angular speeds of the satellites 9 and of the ring. 8 are unequal owing to the diameters of the driven pulleys, the central pinion 10 will be moved inversely owing to the properties of the difierential motion, the diameters of the pulleys corresponding to the result to be attained upon the inner shaft being determined by calculation. Supposing this position were the position of high back speed-when now the driving rod 11 with the pushing levers 12, 13, 14, each of which is provided with a roller 15., is moved from the left to the right, the rings havinggrooves 16, 17, are displaced in the ,ing divided into four sectors, each of which is provided with a projection 18 serving as a screw owing to three screws 19 mounted in the same. The flattened ends of the three screws 19 slide in helicoidal grooves 20 of very high pitch arranged on the rod 21 which is located with its ends in thehubs 4 and 5 so that it can freely revolve under the action of the screws 19 acting in the grooves 20.

Each part of the operating ring 16 actuates one rod21 revolving the same by means of the screws 19 mounted in the projection 18. Each rod 21 is threaded at both ends at'the same pitch and screwed into the mov- Y helicoidal threads being right hand threads, sector 23 will move toward the hub 5. A

-,similar motion will be imparted. to the other rods 21 whereby jthe 'pulley 4, for example,

j will reduce .or diminlsh its diameter while the pulley -ai1gments its diameter.

I The rings 16, 17 for the driven pulleys act in a similar manner and simultaneously by means of the rods 24 which have helicoidal grooves as described with reference jalso pivoted 'fixedbearings and one end is screw threaded to engage with one of the movable sectors, 26 for example, of the.

driven pulley 6 afidthis sector will be dis-' placed through the revolving motion imparted to rod 24 by the screws 19 acting in the grooves 20.

. The displacement of the sectors on the inner shaft takes place in inverse direction as the displacement produced on the main -5 shaft":while the pulley 6 which is operated from the pulley 4 increases its diameter, the

diameterflof the pulley 7 which is operated} from the pulley 5 decreases. ,The speed of' the-outer ring 8 decreases, and the speed ofthe pinions 9 increases and the difference of speed of the two parts 8 and 9 from a maximal speed, which for a'motorcar will be the 7 high back speed for example, will become:

. zero after having passed through such ai value that the movement obtained upon the f central pinion 10 isequal to zero and then. will gradually increase as a forward motion. Thus, for this pinion 10 the following phases 1 are obtained :1. high back speed graduf -ally decreasing to zero, 2.--progressive for-s ward motion up to the desired maximalf 'speed,. obtained when the satellites andthe;

' ring revolve at the same speed, thatis to say, when the four pulleys are of equal di-:'

'ameter. I 7

v For obtainingthe forward and backward,

movement of the sectors 22, 23-, 26 and 27 j with regard to their fixed hubs, that is to" say, the variation of the speed in forward;-

I and in-backwarddirection and the stopping of the car, any suitable; means operated by. hand or foot may be used as well as any suitable devices which are automatically ac-fi tuated from the engine. The apparatus bein in motion, each sec- I tor of the operating rings 16, 17 will, in its; turn, comemto the way of the'rollers 15 if: a-certain pressure is. exerted upon said roll- -ers through the intermediary. of the lever--,

- sup orts 12, 13 and 14 andthe rod 11. Ac-i cor ing to the rapidity of rotation each sec-i tor will be removed laterally and for a small I distance so that the next' following sector can in'its turn take part in this motion. As

the device isoperated inthe precise moment" where themovable sectors of the operating pulleys are not in engagement with the the other to and8. 1 The junction of .the chain links is effected by means of a hollow bolt 37 (Fig. 7) 1n chain, there will be required only very little effort for operating the device, which thus.

is easy to manipulate, the gear being'adap-t-- ed to pass. in comparatively short time 'through all the different. positions.

w The chains which are used with the pulleys may be of anysuitable construction. It is however preferable to use chains with fixed or movable cross pins which are constructed in the manner hereinafter described .and which correspond to-the angular teeth to the rod 21. The ends of each' rod 24 are J i i of the pulleys.

6, and 7 is composed of stamped links 28, 29 which are both, the outer links 28 as well as the inner links 29 traversed by a tube 30 and connected by a tubular axle 31, in which the cross pin 32 is located so that it can be shifted in said tubular axle from one side to enetr'ate with the one or with the other pointed end between the angular teeth of the sectors 33, 34, 35, 36 of the 'pulleys to' take the same along (F1gs. 1, 2

which a cross pin is movablymounted. The lateral" displacement of saidcross bolt or pin is limited by means of the s'cre'w'38 in tube 31."-

under the best possibleconditions (Fig. 8).

In lieu of the movable crosspinsor bolts abutment 'IH'OI' lGI' to bring the cross pins or bolts the chain may have fixedlatera'l" arms and i be composed of special linksj43 connected the one with'the others by means of OI'dlnarychain links 44 Figs. 9 and 10). The ends of the rods w ich form the speclal links are, bent and soldered at 45 so that they form points 32 at the sideswhich are similar to the ointed ends of the movable,

cross bolts herembefore described, said fixed gularteeth of t e'pulley sectors.

points .engagin automatically with the an hereinbefore described can be applied not only to variable-speed devices Wl-th difier- 81112181" gears but to anyspeed gear of known 1 construction.

The apparatus is p dustries where explosion engines are used,

applicable in all such. as rolling brldges, hoists cranes, tool-- en'gines, lifts, looms etc. but it is shown 1n .the' drawings in its application for motorcars, the motor'being arranged at the front end of the frame and connected with the variable speed gear by means of the shaft which operates the'p1n1on-2. The central p I pinion 10 by its sleeve operates as usual another difierentiahwhich transmits its mothe teeth of the one side stand opposite the intervals between the teeth of the other side in order to displace laterally the movable cross pins of the chain, their operativeness being thus insured for any intermediate position, and having movable cheeks divided into independent sectors adapted to displace themselves laterally upon the hub of r the fixed part of the respective pulle and screws mounted in each of said mova le sectors of the pulleys for varying the width of the grooves, said variations of the groove and said lateral displacement of the sectors being effected successively and when the sectors are not in gear with the chain for avoiding the efiects of the pull of the driving chain, substantially as described and shown and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a variable s eed device comprising extensible chain pu eye-with movable sectors, the means for the lateral displacement of said movable sectors comprising double screws abutting against the fixed parts of the pulleys and having their threads directed in the same direction but said threads being of diiferent pitch, auxiliary grooved rings or pulleys equally divided into independent sectors which each have points forming a female screw serving for turning said double screws, a driving rod and rollers carried by said driving rod and rolling in the rooves of the auxiliary pulleys for displacing laterally and successively the sectors of the extensible pulleys and for varying the widths of the grooves in the pulleys when said sectors are not in gear with the chain, substantially as described and shown and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a variable speed device comprising extensible chain pulleys, the combination of the extensible pulleys having angular teeth with means for drawing along consisting of an articulated chain of metal, composed of links which have lateral cheeks serving for guiding and supporting the chain in the grooves of the pulleys, and pointed arms of said links which engage with the teeth of the grooves 01 the extensible pulleys for producing witl. at any slipping the drawing along of said pulleys, substantially as described and shown and for the purpose set forth.

EDMOND DRAULLETTE.

Witnesses:

' PAUL Durur, I

VICTOR MARENDOWSKI. 

